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PERRY SPEAKS ON POST-WAR

Isister Also Leads Group At Unitarian Conferences

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In a meeting of 135 Unitarian college students at the Arlington Street Church in Boston yesterday afternoon and evening, a course of action was planned concerning "The Church and the Post-War World." Present among the speakers were Ralph Barton Perry, professor of Philosophy and Chairman of American Defense, Harvard Group, and Claude M. Isbister, fellow in Economics.

Stressing the fact that "there is no longer such a thing as isolation," Perry developed his post-war plans along a "developed gradualism" instead of the "all-at-once" versus the "creeper-up" schools of peace ideas.

Perry simplified American post-war plans in "security and collaboration." Such a scheme presupposes the close-knitted relationship among the United Nations after the war and a raise in the level of human resourcefulness.

"Isbister, in a discussion group on "The Economics of the Post-War World," emphasized the necessity of solving our social problems, since America is already technologically ahead.

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